Brother Bear Productions: A New Age in Media Management

The Arts Council of White Lake is once again offering its free summer concert series at 7 p.m. Tuesdays at the Montague Band Shell. On August 13, BBP & ACWL are pleased to announce an evening with Brad Fritcher + trois! The rain location is Montague High School Auditorium-Center for the Arts. For more information, call 231-893-2524 or visit www.artscouncilofwhitelake.org.

Many updates coming for Grasshoppah,Brad Fritcher + trois, and Brian Oberlin!

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BBP is pleased to announce the request by Potato Moon to have Brad Fritcher + trois provide session work for their latest album due out later this year. This will also begin the future of the two bands merging for some epic live events in West Mitten! We have Brad Fritcher + trois scheduled to be back at Blue Lake Studio with Potato Moon. Stay tuned for photos and videos from the studio sessions.
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As Fred Drachus of Junior’s Farm Productions digs deep into the mastering of Brad Fritcher + trois’s new album takes, band leader Brad Fritcher has two things to say about the most recent masters:

“This mix makes me feel like I’m back in the studio recreating this take. You can really feel the swag/swing/grits.”

“I like whatever grit there is on my horn, it’s slight but it adds a rugged country back home feel.”

Needless to say, we at Brother Bear Productions are eagerly awaiting the complete masters to make available for digital downloading. #staytuned #BAM

TONS of Grasshoppah videos/recordings/photos will be coming from the B.L.I.S.S. Photography and Brother Bear Productions and Grasshoppah vaults starting in May 2013! #staytuned

Brother Bear Productions and Potato Moon may be joining forces to bring you an evening or two with Potato Moon & Brad Fritcher + trois!

The conversation ended like this:

PM: Let’s pair the trio and the Moon up for a show

BBP: Let’s make a baby with BF + trois and Moon!

PM: sweeeet

#staytuned #BAM

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Brother Bear Productions has teamed up with Andy and Joey of The Turnips to form a unique collaboration with Brad Fritcher + trois. With rehearsals in the near future, the smixture created will result in a masterpiece of sound at this year’s Beaver Island Music Festival. #staytuned

New Brother Bear Productions website will be launched very soon. The site will feature our past, present and future...including but not limited to Grasshoppah, Journeymen, & Brad Fritcher + trois! #staytuned #bbp #musicfromthemittenstate

Brother Bear Productions is pleased to announce a special collaboration with Brad Fritcher + trois and one of the Mitten's touring musical acts...... Stay tuned for we will be announcing the project in a few days! #BAM

Okay, enough with this post! Check out the new site!

http://www.tinyurl.com/BFplustrois

The Brad Fritcher + trois project consists of four eager musicians who are expanding their artistic vision beyond the strict confines of the jazz genre’s tradition. After the first rehearsal on GVSU's campus, the trio of Brad Fritcher (trumpet), Dutcher Snedeker (piano) and Christian VanDuinen (drums) knew immediately that they were working with something valuable. Shortly thereafter, Wyatt Wallace drifted into the bass position and into the studio at Blue Lake Public Radio they went. The album that came forth is one that will convey each member's ability to communicate intellectually and musically to themselves, eachother and the listener. After the release of the album, the Brad Fritcher + trois will continue to tether audiences to their concepts and their sound with live and intimate performances.

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Here is a little sneak peek into the new Brad Fritcher + troisalbum recorded by Fred Drachus of Junior's Farm Productions. Video by Steve Albert (Station Manager at www.bluelake.org/radio)

https://vimeo.com/62296791

"Let love give you warmth in the cold
Let faith and hope lead you on
Let joy be the theme of your song
Let joy be the theme of your song" 
- Jon Black of Fort Atlantic

Who of our friends that work for a newspaper, magazine, college radio, local radio, and or online music network would like to cover a story on a new fresh sound out of West MI?

We just wrapped up 3 days with Brad Fritcher + trois in the new Blue Lake Radio Recording Studio with recording engineer Fred Drachus of Junior’s Farm Productions. Fred is well known for engineering and mastering Potato Moon’s discography. Stay tuned for we will be in the studio with a few radio stations some time in May.

Coffee. Recording. Day 3. Today will feature The Wierenga Reprise sitting in on piano with Brad Fritcher + trois. #BAM

Go like the page! Be in the NOW! #BAM

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Brother Bear Productions is proud to include West Mitten Marketplace to it's list of services for 2013! Check us out!

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"The term Black American Music just acknowledges the culture from which it sprung forth. You don’t have to be Black to appreciate and play it anymore than you have to be Chinese to cook and eat noodles." - Nicholas Payton #BAM

That being said...

This weekend begins the sound of a fresh newness for BBP, West MI, and Beyond. The Brad Fritcher + trois will be grinding withPotato Moon's recording engineer, Fred Drachus (Junior's Farm Productions) at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp studio! Their instrumentation ranges from the traditional to the experimental, the melodies are fresh, and the rhythms new and alive. It makes Jazz fun again!

Grasshoppah & BBP fans, Brian Oberlin got a sneak peek at the material for this weekend and had this to say:

"The Architect, Brad A Fritcher (Brad Fritcher + trois) is certainly a musician’s musician. Imagine a collaboration with Grover Washington, Jr., Lee Morgan, and Danger Mouse; funky beats, slick chord changes, and melodic lines built on heavy jazz chops. In the sought after genre, the Architect is original and inventive above all else." – Brian Oberlin (Grasshoppah, Journeymen, BassMandolin, Oregon Mandolin Orchestra, River of the West Mandolin Camp, The Ger Mandolin Orchestra)

#BAM #staytuned